Robert Curtain Poorman
Ken's Great G-Father
1862 - 1895
Maime Ingram Poorman Ken's Great G-Mother 1865 - 1940
(Please contact me with any additions or corrections.)
POORMAN GENERATION 1
HANS (JOHN) GEORG POORMAN (John Georg Bohrmann), BORN c1665, DIED cJune 1741; buried at Evangelical Luthern Church, Warwick Twp, (outside Lititz, PA) Lancaster County, PA:
HANS married (1) NAME UNKNOWN and had 5 children:
1) Daniel Poorman
2) Christopher Poorman, D: before 1782
3) Stephen Poorman Sr, D: c4/14/1782; Wife Anna (?) Lancaster Co PA; REV WAR; 9 children:
a) Christian Poorman, married Mary surname unknown
b) John Poorman
c) Barbara Poorman, married Eliab Negley
d) Mary Poorman, married John Roop
e) Addy Poorman,, married Jacob Roop
f) Freney (Fanny) Poorman, married Christian Stauffer
g) Anna Poorman, married Henry Landis
h) Elizabeth Poorman, D: April 1782
i) Stephen Poorman, Jr.
4) PETER POORMAN SENIOR, BORN c1717 DIED c8/23/1792
5) Melchior Poorman
HANS married (2) Catharina Motz/Motzin 8/10/1735 (Marriage recorded in the Evangelical Luthern Church records of Warwick Twp.) children:
a) Ana Catharina B: 9/1/1736 or 10/3/1736
b) Maria Barbara, B: 1/25/1738 or 2/25/1738
HANS married (3) Agnes Doerr/Dorrin on 10/6/1740 - no children.
Note: After Hans died the following year, widow Agnes married Jacob Haeckert/Hecker/Huber on 3/25/1744.
GENERATION 2
PETER POORMAN SR, BORN 1717 DIED c8/23/1792 Buried Elizabethtown PA; Occ Farmer; Rel Luthern.
PETER married Mary Kathrin O. surname unknown, and had 14 children:
1) (JOHN) JACOB POORMAN SENIOR, BORN 1/8/1742, DIED 1/11/1785
2) Maria Elizabetha Poorman, B: 4/14/1743
3) Daniel Poorman, B: 8/31/1744, D: 4/18/1825
4) Henry Poorman
5) Peter Poorman, Jr, c1749, D: c6/6/1817
6) John Poorman (2) REV WAR, B: c1755, D: c1794 married Elizabeth Croxon
7) Anna Mary Poorman, B: c1754-57?
8) Anna Martha Poorman, B: c1757-59?
9) Mary Magdalena Poorman, B: c1759-65?
10) Melchoir Poorman, B: c1767, D: c1808
11) Michael Poorman
12) William Poorman
13) Anna Barbara Poorman, B: 3/18/1769
14) Abraham Poorman, B: 12/17/1771 Note: Deed from JOHN MONTGOMERY, Paxtang Twp, Lancaster Cty Courthouse 4/2/1765. Also deed agreements dated 10/21/1782 for land Peter bought from John Montgomery. Deed agreements between Jacob Poorman, Peter and his wife Kathrin O. The text refers to Peter as Jacob's father, and both signed/noted in German. Peter's residence stated to be Mount Joy Twp, Lancaster, and Jacob's residence as Paxtang Twp, Lancaster County.
GENERATION 3
(JOHN) JACOB POORMAN SENIOR (REVOLUTIONARY WAR), BORN 1/6/1742 DIED 1/11/1785 in Paxtang Twp, Lancaster County PA; Religion: Shoop's Evangelical Luthern Church, Hainton. Occupation: Blacksmith.
Jacob married MARY WERNER 3/5/1762 and had 10 children:
1) Michael Poorman, Sr. B: 5/17/1764, D: 2/17/1828
2) Elizabeth Poorman, B: 1767
3) John A. Poorman, Sr, B: 12/9/1769, D: 6/7/1845
4) Jacob Poorman, Jr.
5) Henry Poorman, 1770-1824
6) Daniel Poorman, 6/6/1772, D: 2/12/1824
7) PETER AQUILA POORMAN 12/10/1776 - 9/10/1865
8) William, B. Poorman, 11/26/1780, D: 6/3/1852
9) Catharine B. Poorman, B: 11/26/1780, D: 6/12/1860
10) Melchoir Poorman
Note: In 1785 Mary donated 15s toward putting a fence around Shoop's church and graveyard. John Jacob was in the Revolutionary War from 12/26/1778 through 1782 as a Private. He served with CAPTAIN JOHN RUTHERFORD's Company, Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia, commanded by COLONEL ROBERT ELDER. Also served with Captain HUGH ROBINSON's Company, Tenth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia.
John Sylvester Poorman Ken's Paternal G-Father 1886 - 1921
GENERATION 4
PETER AQUILA POORMAN, SHOEMAKER & FARMER, BORN 12/10/1776 in Lancaster County (now part of Dauphin), DIED 9/10/1865 in Youngdale, Clinton County PA (between Castanea and McElhatten); Buried in Union/Throne Cemetery, McElhatten, Clinton County PA.
PETER Married (1) Jane Sturgis in 1800; she was born in England in 1786 and died c1820. They had 12 children:
1) Allison C. Poorman, B: 4/3/1816, D: 8/1/1868
Note: Allison C. Poorman is our connection to President Abraham Lincoln. Allison C. Poorman married Amanda Hanks, Abe's Niece, daughter of Dennis Hanks, who was Nancy Hanks Lincoln's (Abe's Mother) first cousin. Click here for the whole Abe Lincoln connection story.
2) William Sr., B: 1/7/1800, D: 9/6/1864
3) Rachael, B: 1803
4) Elizabeth, B: 10/5/1803, D: 10/30/1857; she married Melchoir Ricker, B: 10/12/1806, D: 1/28/1869
5) Mary Poorman, B: 1805
6) John Poorman, B: 10/4/1806, D: after 1887
7) Sarah Jane Poorman, B: 10/9/1809, D: 1/9/1891
8) Armand Poorman, B: c1810
9) Catharine Poorman, B: 2/9/1812
10) Hugh W. Poorman, B: c1815, D: 1882
11) Henry C. Poorman, B: c1818, D: 2/6/1892
12) Thomas Nelson Poorman, B: 1819, D: 8/9/1882
PETER married (2) LYDIA DUNN, B: 10/19/1793, D: 12/27/1865 in Youngdale; buried Union Throne Cemetery; and they had 6 children:
1) Washington Poorman, B: 12/28/1822, D: 1/1/1875
2) Jane Poorman, 4/13/1825, D: 3/27/1857; married Jacob Deise (George Dice) on 5/3/1849, he was B: 2/3/1812, D: 12/12/1893 (information about their children is available - contact Ken Poorman)
3) Benjamin Poorman, B: 4/1/1827, D: 4/8/1854
4) JOSEPH P. POORMAN, BORN 5/5/1829 DIED 3/12/1906
5) Anna Rebecca Poorman, B: 6/4/1831, D: ?; married Thomas McNarney, B: c1830, D: 9/17/1898, lived in Coudersport, Potter County PA
6) Lydia Poorman, B: 8/22/1834, D: 7/10/1877; married George Strayer on 8/11/1853, he was B: 10/22/1830, D: ?
Note: Lock Haven Express, Saturday 8/14/1982; Trinity Methodist Church in Lock Haven was founded 149 years ago in the home of PETER POORMAN in 1833, in the little red house by the dam.
GENERATION 5
JOSEPH P. POORMAN, FARMER, BORN 5/5/1829 in Mifflin Twp, Lycoming County PA, DIED 3/12/1906 in Castanea PA, buried in Union-Throne Cemetery in McElhattan, Clinton County PA; Religion United Methodist Church in Castanea PA (formerly the EUB (Evangelical United Brethern), which is next door to my homestead at 15 East Brown Street, and where I went to church as a boy.
JOSEPH married ELIZA ANN MCKEAGUE in 1854, Religion Roman Catholic (Eliza was a Waynesville (McElhattan) Sabbath School Teacher 1852 to 1853. She attended this church since there was no Catholic church nearby.) They had 9 children:
1) John Taylor Poorman, B: c1854
2) Joseph Daniel Poorman, B: Sept 1856, D: 1/3/1931
3) George Omet Poorman, B: 10/31/1858, D: 6/12/1938
4) Martha "Mat" Jane Poorman, B: 12/4/1860, D: 1/11/1946 (Clearfield) m. John P. Duff
5) ROBERT CURTIN POORMAN, BORN 12/17/1862 DIED 1/23/1895
6) Lydia "Lyd" Ann Poorman, B: 7/9/1865, D: Dec 1948(Mcgees Mills) m. Edward M. Sunderland on 10/24/1888 Clearfield PA.
7) Philip Thomas Poorman, B: 5/11/1867, D: 12/3/1956
8) Emma Marguerite Poorman, B: 10/10/1871, D: 1941, m. James H. Rhoads, B: 10/29/1873, D: 1944 Clearfield PA
9) William A. Poorman, B: 5/31/1872, D: 11/19/1889 Castanea PA Residence: Cherry Tree, Indiana County PA 1856; Castanea Township PA 1880; back to Cherry Tree PA in 1880.
Kenneth John Poorman Ken & Steve's Father 1914 - 1972
GENERATION 6
ROBERT CURTIN POORMAN, BORN 12/17/1862 in Cherry Tree, Indiana County PA, DIED 1/23/1895 in Lock Haven, Clinton County PA; buried in Union/Throne Cemetery, McElhatten, Clinton County PA; abscess of the liver. Religion: United Methodist Church, Castanea PA, Residence: Walnut Street, Lock Haven PA; Occupation-Blacksmith on the railroad, and Car Inspector for Penn's Railroad Company. Member-Knights of Pythias.
Married MARY "MAIME" ANN INGRAM on 9/23/1885, BORN 9/9/1865 in Driftwood, Cameron County PA; DIED 2/25/1940 in Lock Haven PA, buried Highland Cemetery Lock Haven PA; complications of appendicitis operation; they had 6 children:
1) JOHN SYLVESTER POORMAN (MY GRANDFATHER), BORN 2/13/1886, DIED 11/14/1921.
Note: John worked at the Paper Mill, as did his wife, Maude, and all three kids eventually. Wish I had known him.
2) Albert Lee "Cap" Poorman, B: 5/26/1887, D: 4/28/1964; Tinsmith, owned business in Lock Haven. Note: Dad often took me to visit Great Uncle Al in his tin shop in the alley across from the Elks when I was a young boy. I remember being impressed by the machinery. I remember it well today 2/17/2003. I guess Dad felt close to him, his uncle Al, since Dad's father died so young. As they were tearing down the old Opera House in 2005, I walked through that alley and said a prayer for Great Uncle Al Poorman where his shop used to be. Crystal, my 9 year old granddaughter, was with me, and she crawled under the yellow police tape and picked up a small piece of brick from the Opera House to get as a gift for her Great Uncle Steve Poorman, who she thinks is the greatest person on Earth. (Please, don't everyone write.)
3) Clyde Augustus Poorman Sr, B: 12/13/1888, D: 6/3/1971; buried Linnwood Cemetery, McElhattan, Clinton Cty PA; Married Stella Mae Kinley, B: 3/26/1891, D: 6/3/1982; buried Linnwood Cemetery. Great Uncle Clyde was retired from the New york Central Railway. I remember Dad taking me with him to visit Great Uncle Clyde occasionally when I was a kid. We usually walked up, as he only lived a block away, but I can remember driving up too. They had 4 children:
a) Twyla Marguerite Poorman (Schadt) B: Castanea 6/28/13, D: ? Married John William Schadt on 10/17/31 in Williamsport, Lycoming Cty. Pa. They had 4 children:
a1) Gloria Maye, B: 1932
a2) Infant Son, B: 1934
a3) Robert Russell Schadt, B: 1936
a4) Mary Lee, B: 1947
b) Robert (Rip) Curtin Poorman, B: 1915
c) Albert Lee "Babe" Poorman, B: 6/11/1917; Retired from Piper Aircraft Corp., Lock Haven, PA. Babe married Marjorie E. Kunes.
Note 1: Marjorie's sister, Pauline J. Kunes married Gerard DeMarte. I spent a lot of time with her and Gee in DeMarte's Cafe on Walnut Street when I was in my 20's. And I can still remember Mom and Dad taking me into DeMarte's when I was just a little kid. They had little private rooms in the back. Neat.
Note 2: I met Babe in the Lock Haven Elks one night and he spent several hours with me going over the family tree that he helped Bobby Schadt put together in "Echos." That night I told him the story of me and a friend popping out the streetlight with a rock in front of his Dad's house one evening when I was about 12 years old. He and some friends were sitting in his back yard and they chased us down Keller Street. We hid in the high grass in Dad's peach orchard at 104 East Keller. I liked Babe a lot... but I was glad he didn't catch us that night!
d) Clyde Augustus Poorman Jr., B: 1923 - Living; Married Mary Louise Bunner on 5/23/1944; retired from Lock Haven Paper Mill; 2 children:
1) Carol Louise Poorman
2) Jack Russell Poorman
Note: I lived at 104 East Keller St. Castanea, PA for a few years in the 1960's, a couple doors behind Clyde Jr.
4) Mary Viola Poorman, Linotype Operator, Lock Haven Express, B: 12/19/1890, D: 8/17/1975 (no marriage-no children).
Note: Great Aunt Mary and Great Aunt Ruth lived behind us, across Harvey's Run, when I grew up at 15 East Brown Street, Castanea, PA. Aunt Mary always invited me in and gave me some kind of treat, i.e. cookies, etc. She was my favorite Great Aunt of the Poormans.
Note: I used to watch Aunt Ruth lop off the heads of chickens on the stump by their garage, across the Run. She used to drive me to pre-K when I was four at Aikley School at the Lock Haven State Teachers College. I still remember her old square black car with flat roof and running boards. I'll never forget the day she came out and gave Dad hell when he built the run wall on our side of Harvey's Run. I used to wrestle Spearto's billy goat next door to Aunt Mary & Ruth's when I was little. It always chased us when we walked through the field by Margaret Alley. When I lived there, 1942-1959, Margaret Alley went all the way through from Logan Avenue to McElhattan Avenue, although the run bridge was out for years.
6) Roberta "Bob" Curtin Poorman, B: 4/23/1895, D: 5/3/1955; married Elwood N. Brown on 12/30/1914.
Note: Mom was in a card club with Aunt Bob, Aunt Mary, Aunt Ruth, Nonie, Florene and Larue.
Aunt Bob had five children:
a) Wynona: Nonie married Harry Gruver
b) Larue: married Gordon Shaffer
c) Florene Brown (my second grade teacher at Castanea)
d) Clifford Brown
e) Robert Brown - US Air Force
Kenneth Richard Poorman That's ME - Hello! 1942 - Present
JOHN SYLVESTER POORMAN (My Grandfather) BORN 2/13/1886, DIED 11/14/1921; buried Highland Cemetery Lock Haven Clinton Cty. PA
John Sylvester married MAUDE RYAN (Big Gram) on 9/23/1913, BORN 11/12/1890, DIED (mid-1970's) at Lock Haven Hospital; Buried Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA; three children:
1) KENNETH JOHN POORMAN (MY FATHER), BORN 3/23/1914, DIED 12/4/1972, Retired from the Hammermill Paper Mill, Lock Haven PA; Ken married PEARL HALL b. 7/19/1913; d. 2/5/1976 (MY MOTHER) from Renovo PA, and had 2 children:
a) KENNETH RICHARD POORMAN (me)
b) Stephen Phillip Poorman
2) Frances Mary Poorman, B: 11/4/1917 in Lock Haven PA, D: 1/30/2000 in Jersey Shore PA; Married Harry Lee Smith (Jersey Shore PA) and had two children:
a) Donald Lee Smith, M: Vonnie - Kellie & Lisa
b) Robert L. Smith, M1: Judy - Michael; M2: Lois
3) Katharine Louise Poorman, B: 1/1/1919, D: 3/22/1989. Married George William Moon B: 8 Jan 1912, D: 24 Dec 1997 (Lived in Mill Hall PA) on 30 Dec 1941 and had one child:
a) Jane Moon, who married Dennis Keller and had 3 children - Beth, Lori & Lance
Note: My Grandmother MAUDE RYAN POORMAN's Mother's home was at 108 Jessamine Street in Lock Haven, Clinton County PA, near the corner of Elm Street (no longer there); one of the two Maple trees that stood in front of the house is still standing (1/1/2005); Gram's father was Daniel Ryan and her mother was Frances Munro Ryan. Jim Quay, lived on one side of her house at 108 Jessamine until he died.
GENERATION 8
KENNETH JOHN POORMAN (MY FATHER), BORN 5/23/1914, lived in the Village of Castanea PA, DIED 12/4/1972. Buried Hall-Wertz Cemetery, Halls Run, Noyes Township, Clinton County PA.
Note: Dad was a Foreman for many years at the Castanea Mill of the New York & Pennsylvania Company, later Hammermill Paper. He had 26 years service when he retired due to a severe heart attack. I was at work at Bell Telephone on Mt. Pleasant Street in Jersey Shore PA when I got the call from Corrine that Dad was on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. I was at the hospital with Mom when they pronounced him dead in the emergency room. What a horrible sight; bad day for Mom. I'll never forget it.
M1: Ina Mae Swartz; Dad (age 21) married Mae (age 20) on 11-6-1934 in Cumberland, Allegany County, MD; they resided in Allison township, Clinton county PA; and divorced on June 29, 1938 in Clinton County, PA (April Term No. 97); no children that we know of.
M2: PEARL MADELINE HALL (MY MOTHER) in 1941, BORN 7/19/1913, married Dad June 16th 1941 and lived in Castanea PA, DIED 2/5/1976, Buried Hall-Wertz Cemetery, Halls Run PA. Ken and Pearl had two children:
Note: Steve and I were at the Williamsport Hospital when Mom died. Aunt Bell was with her when she died. Aunt Belle and Aunt Emma had spent months here with Mom while she was in the hospital suffering with Cancer.
KENNETH RICHARD POORMAN (me) [Pearl Madeline Hall-Wertz] B: 1942. Ken married:
M1: Donna Rae Bonnell, B: 1943, married Ken on June 30, 1961 in Antes Fort PA; they lived in Castanea Township PA. Ken Poorman and Donna Bonnell had four children:
1. Kenneth Allen Poorman, B: 1961
2. Randall Clay Poorman, B: 2/3/1964, D: 4/1/1997
3. John Richard Poorman, B: 1964, D: 1964
4. Scott Derek Poorman, B: 1971
M2: Diane Marie Hansberry, B: 1960, married Ken on June 12, 1993 in Valley Forge PA; they live in Jeffersonville, PA.
STEPHEN PHILIP POORMAN, B: 1950 in Teah Hospital, Lock Haven PA Steve married:
M1: Corrine Jean King Poorman @ East Main Street United Methodist Church in Lock Haven, PA, no children - divorced
M2: Pamela Fisher Simander Abramo Poorman @ Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, FL who has two children:
1) Stephanie Sue Ann Simander b. 1972
a) Caleb Forrest Simander b. 1994
b) Kathleen Simander b. 2002
c) Colin Matthew Simander b. 2005
2) Sean Michael Simander b. 1974
Note: Pam Fisher's mother was Arlene R. Weber Fisher Shaffer, born 10/30/1923 in Dewart, Lycoming County PA; she died 12/26/2004 in Jersey Shore, PA; buried by Yost-Gedon Funeral Home at Rest Haven Memorial Park near Woolrich, PA; member of St. Luke's United Church of Christ in Lock Haven. Her only brother, George "Jake" Weber died in 2005. Her sister Eleanor married Gene Shaffer, son of Floyd & Helen Shaffer in Castanea, PA.
GENERATION 10
KENNETH ALLEN POORMAN [son of Kenneth Richard Poorman], B: 1961 at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg PA - Jasmine Ezic - no children
RANDALL CLAY POORMAN [son of Kenneth Richard Poorman], B: 2/3/1964 in Lock Haven PA, D: 4/1/1997 in Tampa FL due to auto accident; M&D: Marlene DiPietri with one step child:
1) Jamie
JOHN RICHARD POORMAN [son of Kenneth Richard Poorman] B: 11/1964 in Lock Haven PA; D: 11/1964 in Lock Haven PA; baby buried in Hall-Werta Cemetery at Hall's Run, Noyes Township, Clinton County PA
SCOTT DEREK POORMAN [son of Kenneth Richard Poorman], B: 1971 in Williamsport PA, his children are:
1) Crystalblue Leigh Mark, B: 1995 (Tanya Mark Brosius, Mother)... Crystal Mark is our little "Pity Pat"
2) Diana Marie Poorman, B: 1996 (Tanya Mark Brosius, Mother)... Diana is our little "Honey Babe"
Note: Tanya Mark's Mother is Sandy Oakes Mark Pierce Collins of the Downingtown (Honeybrook) area, Chester County PA; Tanya married Mark Brosius who is now step-father to Crystal Mark and Diana Poorman. Tanya and Mark have a daughter Monica Brosius. Mark also has a daughter, Krista Brosius, from a prior relationship. Mark's parents are James Brosius of Malvern PA and Charlotte Blain Brosius Girard of Oaklahoma and Malvern PA.
The saga continues...
Compliments and appreciation to my cousin, Robert Russell Schadt, our Family Genealogist and author of ECHOES, Copyright 1983, a genealogy including Poorman biographical/lineage data. Thank you Bob.
PS: Bobby, I went to St. Agnes in Lock Haven for Mass last Sunday and saw that your mother had memorialized my grandmother, Maude Ryan Poorman when she died. I wish I could say thank you to Twyla... a prayer on the way. Ken 7/31/2004
